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Vachellia robusta

On the Springbok Flats
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Caesalpinioideae
Clade:	Mimosoid clade
Genus:	Vachellia
Species:	V. robusta
Binomial name
*Vachellia robusta* (Burch.) Kyal. & Boatwr.^[1]
Subspecies^[2]
Vachellia robusta subsp. clavigera (E.Mey.) Kyal. & Boatwr. Vachellia robusta subsp. robusta (Burch.) Kyal. & Boatwr. Vachellia robusta subsp. usambarensis (Taub.) Kyal. & Boatwr.
Synonyms
Acacia robusta Burch.

Vachellia robusta, the splendid thorn, is an Afrotropical tree species.

It is native to eastern and southern Africa, ranging from Ethiopia and Somalia in the north to South Africa and Namibia in southern Africa.^[3]

Subspecies

Three subspecies are accepted:

Vachellia robusta subsp. clavigera (E.Mey.) Kyal. & Boatwr. – native to Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Eswatini, and South Africa.^[4]
Vachellia robusta subsp. robusta – native to South Africa, Botswana, and western Zimbabwe.^[5]
Vachellia robusta subsp. usambarensis (Taub.) Kyal. & Boatwr. – native to Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique.^[6] It is a common canopy tree in drier undifferentiated forest communities in the Northern and Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic of coastal Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique, where it grows up to 20 meters high.^[7]

^ Kyalangalilwa B, Boatwright JS, Daru BH, Maurin O, van der Bank M (2013). "Phylogenetic position and revised classification of Acacia s.l. (Fabaceae: Mimosoideae) in Africa, including new combinations in Vachellia and Senegalia". Bot J Linn Soc. 172 (4): 500–523. doi:10.1111/boj.12047. hdl:10566/3454.
^ "Vachellia robusta (as Acacia robusta)". The Plant List. 2010. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
^ Vachellia robusta (Burch.) Kyal. & Boatwr. Plants of the World Online, Kew Science. Accessed 10 December 2020.
^ Vachellia robusta subsp. clavigera (E.Mey.) Kyal. & Boatwr. Plants of the World Online, Kew Science. Accessed 10 December 2022.
^ Vachellia robusta subsp. robusta. Plants of the World Online, Kew Science. Accessed 10 December 2022.
^ Vachellia robusta subsp. usambarensis (Taub.) Kyal. & Boatwr. Plants of the World Online, Kew Science. Accessed 10 December 2022.
^ White, Frank F. (1983). The vegetation of Africa: A descriptive memoir to accompany the Unesco/AETFAT/UNSO vegetation map of Africa. UNESCO, 1983. ISBN 92-3-101955-4

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Taxon identifiers
Vachellia robusta	Wikidata: Q43375465 Wikispecies: Vachellia robusta APDB: 236660 CoL: 7F8XX GBIF: 8166188 GRIN: 467318 iNaturalist: 559229 IPNI: 77131776-1 IUCN: 146451072 NCBI: 875650 Open Tree of Life: 401116 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77131776-1 WFO: wfo-0001336881
Acacia robusta	Wikidata: Q9568718 APDB: 177016 EoL: 689994 EPPO: ACARO GBIF: 2979363 GRIN: 975 iNaturalist: 340127 IPNI: 471335-1 IRMNG: 10173586 ITIS: 820098 Plant List: ild-578 PLANTS: ACRO5 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:471335-1 Tropicos: 13024455 WFO: wfo-0000210660

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